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I was scanning the Civ4 directories to try and find a way to modify the UI to reproduce the following screenshot using Civ4 (I know it's a random pic off the web - my copy of SMAC is approx. 200 miles away at the moment):
On my travels through the directory structure, I found a ton of icons that seemingly had no use within Civ. For example, under '<CivDir>/Resource/Icons/Smilies/' I found the following:
Smiley_Cool_32x32.tga
Smiley_Normal_32x32.tga
Smiley_Tongue_32x32.tga
Smiley_Winking_32x32.tga
(I converted the pics to .png in the GIMP because Firefox can't view .tga files, and I'm pretty sure IE can't)
As well as the smileys, I found a load of icons such as:
(may not appear as a pic, because it has an '&' in it)
scanners & cameras_32x32.tga and folder printers_32x32.tga (found in '<CivDir>/Resource/Icons/System')
There is also an icons folder called 'GFC' which relates to the Scaleform GFC SDK which is the tools Firaxis used to build the UI for Civ4. The icons in this folder look like they belong with said tools, which would no doubt appear (in some form) in the Civ4 SDK. Are Firaxis trying to sneak the SDK to us little by little through the patches?
Also I found one other file that may be extremely useful for porting SMAC graphics to Civ4:
GameFont.tga, found in '<CivDir>/Resource/Civ4'
PS: Almost all the icons can be found in 32x32 flavour or 16x16 flavour - although the GIMP says the smileys are 42x42
On my travels through the directory structure, I found a ton of icons that seemingly had no use within Civ. For example, under '<CivDir>/Resource/Icons/Smilies/' I found the following:
Smiley_Cool_32x32.tga
Smiley_Normal_32x32.tga
Smiley_Tongue_32x32.tga
Smiley_Winking_32x32.tga
(I converted the pics to .png in the GIMP because Firefox can't view .tga files, and I'm pretty sure IE can't)
As well as the smileys, I found a load of icons such as:
(may not appear as a pic, because it has an '&' in it)scanners & cameras_32x32.tga and folder printers_32x32.tga (found in '<CivDir>/Resource/Icons/System')
There is also an icons folder called 'GFC' which relates to the Scaleform GFC SDK which is the tools Firaxis used to build the UI for Civ4. The icons in this folder look like they belong with said tools, which would no doubt appear (in some form) in the Civ4 SDK. Are Firaxis trying to sneak the SDK to us little by little through the patches?
Also I found one other file that may be extremely useful for porting SMAC graphics to Civ4:
GameFont.tga, found in '<CivDir>/Resource/Civ4'
PS: Almost all the icons can be found in 32x32 flavour or 16x16 flavour - although the GIMP says the smileys are 42x42
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